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GHSA-J4J7-VW47-RHFQ

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-03-07 00:30 – Updated: 2026-03-10 18:31

Details

Actions which insert URLs into the content attribute of HTML meta tags are not escaped. This can allow XSS if the meta tag also has an http-equiv attribute with the value "refresh". A new GODEBUG setting has been added, htmlmetacontenturlescape, which can be used to disable escaping URLs in actions in the meta content attribute which follow "url=" by setting htmlmetacontenturlescape=0.

Severity ?

7.5 (High)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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CVE-2026-27142 (GCVE-0-2026-27142)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-03-06 21:28 – Updated: 2026-03-16 15:21

Title

URLs in meta content attribute actions are not escaped in html/template

Summary

Severity ?

6.1 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

CWE

CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Assigner

References

URL

Tags

	https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/Edh…
	https://go.dev/issue/77954
	https://go.dev/cl/752081
	https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2026-4603

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	Go standard library	html/template	Affected: 0 , < 1.25.8 (semver) Affected: 1.26.0-0 , < 1.26.1 (semver)

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GHSA-J4J7-VW47-RHFQ

CVE-2026-27142 (GCVE-0-2026-27142)

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